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Your editorial takes issue with newly elected Sen. Ted Cruz, a Republican, for having a perfect voting record of “no” 11 times. Yea! That is exactly what Texans elected him for — to oppose the liberal Democratic controlled Senate.

If your newspaper was not so biased, you would examine the voting record of newly elected Democrats in the House (i.e. Castro) who, like Cruz, are in the minority and see how they are voting.

Don Wages

Saucy snapshot

Re: “Testing his balance on the pedestal,” Maria Anglin, Other Views, Sunday:

Maria Anglin's essay on the Republican Party's water-guzzling man of the hour, or, as Time Magazine dubbed Marco Rubio, the Republican Savior, is a saucy historical snapshot of some of his predecessors.

However, she was two millennia off in acknowledging the most obvious man whose wisdom and leadership skills also put him on a pedestal, a wooden one, where he was nailed by his enemies and abandoned by his followers.

Rubio should know that being called a savior carries a lot of weight. Whether the victim is Cuban or Jewish, bearing a cross will soon have you hanging from it. Time Magazine's religious labeling of the Florida senator should make him uneasy because the man it references was crucified by the government.

The one constant in history is that it repeats itself. Consequently, Marco Rubio should be making the sign of the cross to ward off being the current answer to the Republican Party's prayers, because one place God cannot be found is in a politician's pocket.

The hope is that this experience can make for an informed and culturally empathetic citizen who can celebrate our common humanity and, ideally, strive to become a better person committed to making a positive contribution in the world.

These are all noble aspirations that, apparently, Ms. Boyer does not share.